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it happened near digne-les-bains. they are saying he expected an extremely long and extremely difficult search and rescue operation because of the remoteness of the area. the interior ministry repeating the line we have been telling you. at 9:45 they say, gmt, we were saying 9:47. it is at that time the pilot sent a distress signal. we don't know whether the signal was a recorded message, whether he pressed a button or was able to talk to ground control. the ministry saying that the passenger manifest is being verified. 148 people on board. 142 passengers six crew two of whom were pilots four of whom were flight attendants. the french government stressing saying they don't believe anybody will have survived this germanwings crash flight number 4u 925525. we do not yet know what has happened to flight 4u 9525. it's a personal tweet. >> he says my sympathy with those who are involved and their families. if our fears are confirmed, it is a dark day. we hope to find survivors. >> can i say, what time did you say? >> the f
it happened near digne-les-bains. they are saying he expected an extremely long and extremely difficult search and rescue operation because of the remoteness of the area. the interior ministry repeating the line we have been telling you. at 9:45 they say, gmt, we were saying 9:47. it is at that time the pilot sent a distress signal. we don't know whether the signal was a recorded message, whether he pressed a button or was able to talk to ground control. the ministry saying that the passenger...
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it crashed in the french alps, near digne des bains. the french visit has now been cut short. >> translator: we will do everything we can to understand the cause of the accident. the accident has taken place in an area that's especially difficult to access. >> germanwings is a low-cost airline owned by lufthansa. and flies mainly shortfall flights around europe. it has an excellent record. the passengers are thought to include germ man turkish and french nationals. >> we are deeply concerned our flight crashed and this is a dark day for our company. >> 150 deaths have left so many grieving across europe. 16 teenagers and their teachers from a local school were on the plane. returning from a spanish language exchange program. one community changed forever in a sudden moment of tragedy. bad weather is threatening to further hamper what is already a difficult search operation. heavy rain and strong winds are forecast and possibly evenly even snow. the search is expected to resume at first light, jacky rowland les alps france. >> when we ar
it crashed in the french alps, near digne des bains. the french visit has now been cut short. >> translator: we will do everything we can to understand the cause of the accident. the accident has taken place in an area that's especially difficult to access. >> germanwings is a low-cost airline owned by lufthansa. and flies mainly shortfall flights around europe. it has an excellent record. the passengers are thought to include germ man turkish and french nationals. >> we are...
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a memorial will be held in the town of digne les bains. in the french alps. >> residents came together to remember them. >> it's terrible, horrible for the families. there are no words for this. i'm broken. >> on the mountain side, the task of recovering remains and wreckage continues. it will take another two weeks. the second black box is still missing but the need for its data is less urgent, now the cause of the crash is clear. trying to understand what drove co-pilot andrea lubitz to such a heinous act is the focus of the investigation. one german newspaper quotes a former girlfriend saying lubitz worried his health problems threatened his career. he talked about doing something dramatic that people would remember him for. german doctors said he was undergoing treatment for an unspecified condition and was flying despite being told not to. he had a history of depression. that raises questions about his airline's assessment of his suitability to fly. at dusseldorf airport passengers signaled their determination to carry on flying. >> i
a memorial will be held in the town of digne les bains. in the french alps. >> residents came together to remember them. >> it's terrible, horrible for the families. there are no words for this. i'm broken. >> on the mountain side, the task of recovering remains and wreckage continues. it will take another two weeks. the second black box is still missing but the need for its data is less urgent, now the cause of the crash is clear. trying to understand what drove co-pilot...
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. >>> icy roads, they were the bain of our existence today, wrecks, backups, drivers skidding all over the place in arlington. >> many were blocked off because they had all that leftover ice and snow on them. peggy fox joins us from arlington where now they're getting low on salt supplies, peg? >> reporter: that's right. it's a good thing topper doesn't have more snow in the forecast because arlington is about to run out of salt. this is their only supply right here and because of those low supplies they've been cutting back on the amount of salt they put on the roads and that might have had something to do with all the problems today. >> this car was trying for over an hour to get out of that parking space right there. >> reporter: the owner had to call a tow truck just to get his car out of a parking place. that's how icy it was this morning in arlington. >> i'm watching the cars slide around. i think because it's sunny people must think it's okay to drive, but not quite. >> reporter: arlington county police blocked off several roads, mostly hilly and shadowed roads around the courth
. >>> icy roads, they were the bain of our existence today, wrecks, backups, drivers skidding all over the place in arlington. >> many were blocked off because they had all that leftover ice and snow on them. peggy fox joins us from arlington where now they're getting low on salt supplies, peg? >> reporter: that's right. it's a good thing topper doesn't have more snow in the forecast because arlington is about to run out of salt. this is their only supply right here and...
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this really is time for a lyndon baines johnson moment, a time for demonstrations and legislation and fair appropriation. >> the president called for this crowd to act vote, demand change, but a sampling of the crowd showed a decisive lack of enthusiasm. >> i thought he was going to give us solutions right on the spot, but he didn't. >> a rousing speech, but questions about what is till to come for the civil rights movement in america. selma, alabama. >> meanwhile a police chief appealed for restraint from protestors after the shooting of another black teenager. demonstrators in madison wisconsin spoke out after police shot and killed the teenager on friday. police say they were responding to a disturbance and he was shot after fighting an officer. the teenager's death follows similar shootings which have provoked riots and protest. >> the colombian government and farq rebels agreed to remove land makes from battle grounds. talks to end the five decade long conflict have been on going in havana. official statistics show land mines ever killed or injured more than 11,000 people in the
this really is time for a lyndon baines johnson moment, a time for demonstrations and legislation and fair appropriation. >> the president called for this crowd to act vote, demand change, but a sampling of the crowd showed a decisive lack of enthusiasm. >> i thought he was going to give us solutions right on the spot, but he didn't. >> a rousing speech, but questions about what is till to come for the civil rights movement in america. selma, alabama. >> meanwhile a...
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. -- bain capital. funds advised by bain are buying it. $2.4 billion is the price on this.as experienced strong market share and revenue growth in its main product line. buying bluecoat for $2.4 billion. betty: julie hyman with the breaking news. we continue to count down to the opening bell. our number five-story, gm's five billion dollars by the program. -- $5 billion buyback program. shares rose by 3%. the buyback was accelerated after harry wilson called for it and fight for a board seat. he calls the whole agreement a win-win for the company and for shareholders. harry joins me this morning. great to see you. i know why you went silent because you are working on this. you ask for eight and you were happy with five. harry: we are happy with the outcome. it is a win-win outcome for both sides. the buyback was a small portion of what we were focused on. we were not out there touting it. i real focus was how the company makes decisions around capital allocation. how does the company have a consistent and thoughtful framework? we had a tremendous dialogue with the company t
. -- bain capital. funds advised by bain are buying it. $2.4 billion is the price on this.as experienced strong market share and revenue growth in its main product line. buying bluecoat for $2.4 billion. betty: julie hyman with the breaking news. we continue to count down to the opening bell. our number five-story, gm's five billion dollars by the program. -- $5 billion buyback program. shares rose by 3%. the buyback was accelerated after harry wilson called for it and fight for a board seat....
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satellite radar come bain here's the story we track.ng cold front mav through that cleared out our sky. couple storms building back to the wechlts goes to the north. our weather pattern high pressure building back in and that means a brief warm-up is on the way. take the a look at the week ahead specifically in oakland. afternoon high time of year 64 degrees we are about 6 degrees better than that tomorrow and by thursday when this warm-up peak we are in the mid lower says if. in the east bay. over tonight low under mainly clear sky dropping to 43 in nap a.46 in vallejo. 51 san francisco. 49 in san jose and 49 in antioch. high for your wednesday south bay tomorrow lots of sunshine. 71 san jose. 70 milpitas and peninsula 70 for redd with city. 69 menlo park cooler along the coast with if topping out at 59 degrees. downtown san plan to. high of 65. daly city high of 60. 75 for clover dale frosty start tomorrow. 76 santa rosa. 73 the high in sonoma and 72 san rafael. east bay 69 hayward. 70 san lee an drochlt union city and one final stop.
satellite radar come bain here's the story we track.ng cold front mav through that cleared out our sky. couple storms building back to the wechlts goes to the north. our weather pattern high pressure building back in and that means a brief warm-up is on the way. take the a look at the week ahead specifically in oakland. afternoon high time of year 64 degrees we are about 6 degrees better than that tomorrow and by thursday when this warm-up peak we are in the mid lower says if. in the east bay....
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got the negative report from sandisk, but taiwan semi, an untalked about bow heel oj too much is the bainany company's existence. they sent traders scurrying away. to that breach steps david aldridge, ceo of sky works. arguably the best of the bunch who gave you a terrific reassurance last night right here that things are very much on course and red hot as ever. the new cell phones are so my indicated that the gross margins for chip makers are going higher. that's a difference than the old days. $5 of content in a new iphone which means their business has tremendous momentum. made it clear that the trend is long term. he likes to say he's following the money. all sorts of connected applications, cars home medicine defense, among others. i came away thinking the stocks can bottom too and each have their own issues that don't bleed into the semiconductor horsemen. altera doesn't hurt either. isn't that funny biomare rinne, makes people afraid to short stocks. the bottom line it's clear the leadership semiconductors and buy yoekioteches asserted themselves and that makes it clear the weak ha
got the negative report from sandisk, but taiwan semi, an untalked about bow heel oj too much is the bainany company's existence. they sent traders scurrying away. to that breach steps david aldridge, ceo of sky works. arguably the best of the bunch who gave you a terrific reassurance last night right here that things are very much on course and red hot as ever. the new cell phones are so my indicated that the gross margins for chip makers are going higher. that's a difference than the old...
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al: but you knew personally two of the central diggers and that, martin luther king and lyndon baines johnson. did it look like the king that you knew? vernon: the johnson that was per trade was not the johnson that i knew. al: but it was king? no movie is perfect. the only point about the johnson thing it depicted him as a reluctant supporter of the voting rights act. vernon: i do not believe that. al: that he became a total convert. vernon: he understood what he was doing. he called richard russell and said we are going to past this bill. and democrats are going to lose the south as a result. look at the senate, the house and johnson was right. but he did not back down. al: the other thing that has occurred in recent years and we are talking about the 1965 voting rights act, it was captured brilliantly in the movie when the woman played by oprah winfrey when into the judge who ever was there and said read the preamble to the constitution. how many county judges are there in alabama? and then he said, name them. but the voting rights act made a huge difference. today we look at legis
al: but you knew personally two of the central diggers and that, martin luther king and lyndon baines johnson. did it look like the king that you knew? vernon: the johnson that was per trade was not the johnson that i knew. al: but it was king? no movie is perfect. the only point about the johnson thing it depicted him as a reluctant supporter of the voting rights act. vernon: i do not believe that. al: that he became a total convert. vernon: he understood what he was doing. he called richard...
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not just because of the voting rights acts which lyndon baines johnson let us not forget pushed for andrgued for and got through the power of persuasion and because he had political strength. let's not forget lbj. but you had a government that put the constitution and federal power on the side of the black marchers and today things have changed. i don't want to hear the rhetoric that things have not changed, that we're back to selma, that we have a votes rights law that doesn't -- the supreme court has recognized that times have changed. it's no longer the jim crow south. let us recognize and celebrate that victory. let us recognize and celebrate that today blacks whites asians, hispanics can live with equal protection of the law. and with the assurance that you have a federal government and state governments now backing civil rights. >> there is so much more to talk about. >> a lot more. p. >> however i have to leave it there. and i will leave it right at that point where you're celebrating the fact that we are all together in one red white and blue american flag. we'll leave it there.
not just because of the voting rights acts which lyndon baines johnson let us not forget pushed for andrgued for and got through the power of persuasion and because he had political strength. let's not forget lbj. but you had a government that put the constitution and federal power on the side of the black marchers and today things have changed. i don't want to hear the rhetoric that things have not changed, that we're back to selma, that we have a votes rights law that doesn't -- the supreme...
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eight days after bloody sunday the president of the united states lin bane -- lyndon baines johnson deliveredne of the most important speeches ever made on voting ratesights. he said the time for justice has come. i believe sincerely that no force can hold it back. he went on to say it is right in the eyes of man and god that it should come. he said at times history an fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's search for freedom. he said so it was at lexington and concord, so it was at appomattox. so it was in selma, alabama. each of us must go back to our homes after this celebration and build on a legacy of the march of 1965. the selma movement exists today so we can all do something. so i say to you don't give up on saying that has great meaning. don't get lost in a sea of despair. stand up for what you believe. because in the final analysis we are one people, one family, the human family. we all live in the same house, the american house. the world house. we are black, we are white, we are hispanic asian american, native american. but we are one people
eight days after bloody sunday the president of the united states lin bane -- lyndon baines johnson deliveredne of the most important speeches ever made on voting ratesights. he said the time for justice has come. i believe sincerely that no force can hold it back. he went on to say it is right in the eyes of man and god that it should come. he said at times history an fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's search for freedom. he said so it was at...
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this really is time for a lyndon baines johnson moment, a time for demonstrations and legislation and fair appropriation. >> the president called for this crowd to act to vote, to demand change but a sampling of the crowd showed a decided lack of enthusiasm as the day came to a close. >> i thought he was going to give us solutions right on the spot but he didn't. >> arousing speech, a historic moment, but a lingering question about how much change is yet to come for the civil rights movement in america. al jazeera selma alabama. >> the police chief appealed for restraint from protestors after the shooting of another black teenager. demonstrators in madison wisconsin spoke out after police shot and killed a teenager on friday. police say they were responding to a disturbance and he was shot after fighting with an officer. the teen's death follow similar shootings which have provoked riots and protest. >> in russia, five suspects in the killing of the opposition figure boreries nemtsov have arrived in court in moscow. these pictures coming in just a few minutes ago show one suspect take
this really is time for a lyndon baines johnson moment, a time for demonstrations and legislation and fair appropriation. >> the president called for this crowd to act to vote, to demand change but a sampling of the crowd showed a decided lack of enthusiasm as the day came to a close. >> i thought he was going to give us solutions right on the spot but he didn't. >> arousing speech, a historic moment, but a lingering question about how much change is yet to come for the civil...
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. >> the threats bain are and other hard-line lawmakers say the u.s. and israel face is a deal being negotiated by six world powers with iran over its nuclear program. the hawkish members of congress support netanyahu's claim iran is working toward a nuclear weapons program threatening israel's security. that's why it's expected netanyahu's speech will urge congress to impose tough new sanctions. more than 30 members of congress say they'll boycott the speech. many believe it undermines white house efforts to negotiate a framework deal with iran by the end of the months. still, others resent any attempt to dictate american foreign policy towards iran, while at the same time ignoring hard questions about israel policies towards the palestinians. >> those in congress who take issue with israel settlement expansion in violation of international law and last summer's assault on gaza ever until now remained mostly quiet. now, a rare wrist over support of israeli policies is being exposed in congress and among the 6 million jews who live in the united states
. >> the threats bain are and other hard-line lawmakers say the u.s. and israel face is a deal being negotiated by six world powers with iran over its nuclear program. the hawkish members of congress support netanyahu's claim iran is working toward a nuclear weapons program threatening israel's security. that's why it's expected netanyahu's speech will urge congress to impose tough new sanctions. more than 30 members of congress say they'll boycott the speech. many believe it undermines...
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you look what he did head of bain capital. the guy is a managerial genius. may not be a great campaigner. in fact he is a lousy campaigner. that is why he lost the election but a good organizer. melissa: thank you, gentlemen. the mystery surrounding robert durst continues to unravel. the billionaire facing a murder charge in los angeles, thanks to evidence in hbo's documentary. plus coke, paying big bucks to get your good graces. how the soda brand is marketing itself as a healthy snack. i'm not even kidding about that one. smart money coming up. ♪ the real question that needs to be asked is "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day. whatever i can do to help compute a cure for cancer, that's what i'd like to do. opportunities aren't always obvious. sometimes they just drop in. cme group can help you navigate risks and capture opportunities. we enable you to reach global market
you look what he did head of bain capital. the guy is a managerial genius. may not be a great campaigner. in fact he is a lousy campaigner. that is why he lost the election but a good organizer. melissa: thank you, gentlemen. the mystery surrounding robert durst continues to unravel. the billionaire facing a murder charge in los angeles, thanks to evidence in hbo's documentary. plus coke, paying big bucks to get your good graces. how the soda brand is marketing itself as a healthy snack. i'm...
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this is really time for a lyndon baines johnson moment, a time to make demonstration and legislation and fair appropriation. >> a sampling of the crowd showed a lack of enthusiasm. >> i thought he was going to give us solutions right on the spot, but he didn't. >> arousing speech, a historic moment, but a lingering question about how much change is yet to come for the civil rights movement in america. al jazeera selma alabama. >> as we saw in the report, there have been mixed feelings over the last two days in selma over however america has really come in terms of its civil rights. did the president's speech add any character or reassurance to that debate? >> well, i don't think that the president cleared anything up entirely, because frankly, this is not a clear-cut situation. race in america is a complex and difficult and often intactable problem. i do not see a time in the near future where it will not be an issue. it bears repeating although it's become quite commonplace to see president obama at these types of events or on the world stage in his capacity as president, to see a b
this is really time for a lyndon baines johnson moment, a time to make demonstration and legislation and fair appropriation. >> a sampling of the crowd showed a lack of enthusiasm. >> i thought he was going to give us solutions right on the spot, but he didn't. >> arousing speech, a historic moment, but a lingering question about how much change is yet to come for the civil rights movement in america. al jazeera selma alabama. >> as we saw in the report, there have been...
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permit that would extend the life of hundreds of wind turbines that generate power because the tour bains pose a deadly risk to large birds of prey like hawks and eagles. the operator hopes that the supervisors will agree to let more than 800 older wind mills stay online through 2018 but environmental groups believe they should be replaced with the newer turbines that most fewer risks. >> san francisco enact add law to regulate short term rentals and today two city supervisors will unveil greater restrictions on airbnb limiting short-term rentals to 90 day as year per home. supervisors say it is movied that is not workable and would like to extend the 90 day limit from entire houses to smaller spaces in the homes. some believe that the soft term rental market drives up housing prices across san francisco. >> now a check on the forecast. there are showers out there and widely scattered. >> morning in our area right now. maybe a few sprinkles but they are hard to detect. let me know if you run interest some during the commute. we will talk temperatures, some our coolest in the san ramon val
permit that would extend the life of hundreds of wind turbines that generate power because the tour bains pose a deadly risk to large birds of prey like hawks and eagles. the operator hopes that the supervisors will agree to let more than 800 older wind mills stay online through 2018 but environmental groups believe they should be replaced with the newer turbines that most fewer risks. >> san francisco enact add law to regulate short term rentals and today two city supervisors will unveil...
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he is the first player though to basically say, because of my concern about bain concern, specifically brain injuries cte, i'm making this decision. this may surprise you a little bit. he is a linebacker. you think those guys on the line are going to have the biggest blows to the head. oftentimes they do. but it is really more the speed players. quarterbacks for example. running backs. players who are moving at a high rate of speed, then have collisions. or if you are a quarterback, somebody is coming at you at a high rate of speed. those injuries seem to be the most significant. it is not just the impact itself. but also what we call rotational impact. look at the way the brain moves in that animation there. it is not just a blow but the brain is actually moving in a rotational force as well. that seems to be really more highly associated with concussions and subsequently cte. this animation shows the brain doesn't just take a blow it changes its shape. it contorts. it moves in response to a blow and that causes some of the damage even at the neuron level. >> a lot of players will sta
he is the first player though to basically say, because of my concern about bain concern, specifically brain injuries cte, i'm making this decision. this may surprise you a little bit. he is a linebacker. you think those guys on the line are going to have the biggest blows to the head. oftentimes they do. but it is really more the speed players. quarterbacks for example. running backs. players who are moving at a high rate of speed, then have collisions. or if you are a quarterback, somebody is...
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gerri: bain & company came out said fully a ired of this colleges and universities are on unsustainable financial path. brian to you, is this a bubble that is going to pop just like charlie said? >> i think it definitely has that threat. we are moving in the wrong direction. colleges have very high cost structures. raising tuition to get there. parents and students don't want to pay that looking overseas tuition to plug that gap in the short term. that will not last. unless colleges change cost structure we're on crash course for real problems for some of the schools on this list. gerri: makes me mad the department of education had all the information for years and years kept it behind closed doors and didn't tell a soul bit. i think mom and dad -- you know those parent at sweet briar, those young women at that liberal arts school great school private school, major financial problems, they had no clue. >> at long as methodology they're use something right i agree with you. but there may be problems with the methodology they're using if the data is bad. gerri: department of education ted
gerri: bain & company came out said fully a ired of this colleges and universities are on unsustainable financial path. brian to you, is this a bubble that is going to pop just like charlie said? >> i think it definitely has that threat. we are moving in the wrong direction. colleges have very high cost structures. raising tuition to get there. parents and students don't want to pay that looking overseas tuition to plug that gap in the short term. that will not last. unless colleges...
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. >> i think it was lyndon baines johnson who said "if you want a friend in politics, get a dog." so it's all about adversity or physically. >> in britain, this is just how the publics showed their disdain -- physically. politicians are routinely subjected to egging, custard throwing, flower pelting and paint hurling. >> we in britain have been brought up on pantomime in which chucking custard pies is seen as perfectly harmless fun. and a way of expressing anger. it's become quite common practice to throw things that are colored that will cling, liquid of flour or whatever because that looks good on tele. >> in the face of such indignity, politicians are trained to stay calm, simply to brush it off and walk away. but even they can be egged on to the breaking point. >> it's probably dumb, but i love it when politicians fight back and attack their attackers. >> no one does this better than deputy prime minister john prescott in 2001, taking one for england right on the cheek. >> the guy who threw the egg was half his age and was very close and might have got in the his eye and have
. >> i think it was lyndon baines johnson who said "if you want a friend in politics, get a dog." so it's all about adversity or physically. >> in britain, this is just how the publics showed their disdain -- physically. politicians are routinely subjected to egging, custard throwing, flower pelting and paint hurling. >> we in britain have been brought up on pantomime in which chucking custard pies is seen as perfectly harmless fun. and a way of expressing anger....
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. >>> back on "eyewitness news" and potholes are the bain of any driver.s in boston are using new technology to spot those nasty road craters before they start. cbs's eric fischer reports. >> if you go down this one fast enough it is like a a roller coaster. >> it is tricked out brainchild of the team of engineers at northeastern university in boston. a city still reeling from record snowfall. >> we're not just seeing things that are obvious the to the human eye. >> reporter: it comes equipped with the recording of the sound of the road digital camera to document it and radar to see beneath it. >> this is grouped penetrating radar. >> reporter: david kavanaugh is the driver and a ph.d. candidate. >> it the is hard for sit toys locate where all of their potholes and more obvious damage is so we do help them do that. >> reporter: his high tech ride does in hours what it takes inspection weeks or even months to complete. >> on that road there were potholes cracks, there were patch is or ban eighths over the potholes and we would detect all have of those thing
. >>> back on "eyewitness news" and potholes are the bain of any driver.s in boston are using new technology to spot those nasty road craters before they start. cbs's eric fischer reports. >> if you go down this one fast enough it is like a a roller coaster. >> it is tricked out brainchild of the team of engineers at northeastern university in boston. a city still reeling from record snowfall. >> we're not just seeing things that are obvious the to the human...
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september 15th, 2011, a seemingly typical tuesday for sales associate ethan mcculty and his manager john bain cycle shop in mission viejo, california. >> everyone is friendly and we all get along really well. >> the store has just reopened after an eight-week remodel. $250,000 worth of upgrades. as seen on the store security video, a few customers are milling around including one woman on crutches. >> the store was count of quiet and all of a sudden i heard the loudest noise i think i ever heard. i initially thought it was someone threw a bomb through the front door. >> it is not a bomb but a car crashing into the store, tearing through glass and merchandise and narrowly missing two customers. >> it hit every rack from here to the wall, so you can hear the sound of successive every couple seconds. >> it was absolute chaos. everyone was running around not knowing what happened. it was like a war zone. >> i was kind of in shock. but the woman had her foot on the gas. so she's in the wall and burning rubber on the floor. >> his first instinct is to check on the people inside the car. he discover
september 15th, 2011, a seemingly typical tuesday for sales associate ethan mcculty and his manager john bain cycle shop in mission viejo, california. >> everyone is friendly and we all get along really well. >> the store has just reopened after an eight-week remodel. $250,000 worth of upgrades. as seen on the store security video, a few customers are milling around including one woman on crutches. >> the store was count of quiet and all of a sudden i heard the loudest noise i...
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eight days after bloody sunday the president of the united states lin bane -- lyndon baines johnson deliverede most important speeches ever made on voting ratesights. he said the time for justice has come. i believe sincerely that no force can hold it back. he went on to say it is right in the eyes of man and god that it should come. he said at times history an fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's search for freedom. he said so it was at lexington and concord, so it was at appomattox. so it was in selma, alabama. each of us must go back to our homes after this celebration and build on a legacy of the march of 1965. the selma movement exists today so we can all do something. so i say to you don't give up on saying that has great meaning. don't get lost in a sea of despair. stand up for what you believe. because in the final analysis we are one people, one family, the human family. we all live in the same house, the american house. the world house. we are black, we are white, we are hispanic asian american, native american. but we are one people. thank
eight days after bloody sunday the president of the united states lin bane -- lyndon baines johnson deliverede most important speeches ever made on voting ratesights. he said the time for justice has come. i believe sincerely that no force can hold it back. he went on to say it is right in the eyes of man and god that it should come. he said at times history an fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's search for freedom. he said so it was at lexington and...
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. >> hunt: but you knew personally two essential figures, martin luther king and lyndon bains johnsonit looked like the kingxnh> you knew. >> it looked like the king i knew. the johnson that was portrayed was not the johnson i knew and was friends with. but no movie. >> hunt: no 4wtthe only thing about johnson ando)cit depicted him as a reluctant supporter of the civil rights act. >> i do not believe that. >> hunt: he became a total convert. >> he understood what heeñ was doing. remember he called richard rustle and he said we're going to pass this bill, dick. and democrats are going to lose the south as a result. look at the senate the house and johnson was right. but>> hunt: the other thing that has occurred in recent years, and we're talking now about the 65 voting rights act. it was captured brilliantly in the movie when i guess the woman played by oprah winfrey went in and the judge or whoever was there said, read the preamble to the constitution and recite it she did. how many county judges in alabama. she said how many=x and then he said name them. that's the kind of test. we p
. >> hunt: but you knew personally two essential figures, martin luther king and lyndon bains johnsonit looked like the kingxnh> you knew. >> it looked like the king i knew. the johnson that was portrayed was not the johnson i knew and was friends with. but no movie. >> hunt: no 4wtthe only thing about johnson ando)cit depicted him as a reluctant supporter of the civil rights act. >> i do not believe that. >> hunt: he became a total convert. >> he...
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adam bain, incredibly nice guy but also incredibly good at his job.ave somebody who is so focused and so incredibly good at their job but also you would be happy to be stuck in an elevator with them. >> what would you say then, biz, now, looking at where twitter is and what could propel it for the next leg of growth with costolo at the helm? >> it's funny. i teach a class every year at stanford and in 2010, i asked the question, does anyone in this class think that twitter will do a billion dollars in revenue in its lifetime and nobody raised their hand. and, you know, i just did it a week ago. and now everyone is like well obviously it's making a lot of money. so, you know, i think the great thing about twitter is, there's so much room to grow he. i mean, and twitter is such an important tool for the world. it's not just about connecting with your friends. it's more like the world's bloomberg terminal. everything happening in the world is coorsing through twitter and so many more things happening that need to course through twitter and all of that ca
adam bain, incredibly nice guy but also incredibly good at his job.ave somebody who is so focused and so incredibly good at their job but also you would be happy to be stuck in an elevator with them. >> what would you say then, biz, now, looking at where twitter is and what could propel it for the next leg of growth with costolo at the helm? >> it's funny. i teach a class every year at stanford and in 2010, i asked the question, does anyone in this class think that twitter will do a...
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eight days after the bloody sunday, the president of the united states lyndon baines johnson delivered meaningful speeches ever made by any president on the question of voting rights. he said, the time for justice has come. i believe sincerely that no force can hold it back. it is right in the eyes of man and god that it should come. he said at times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom. he went on to say, so it was at lexington and concord, so it was at upper madison so it was in selma, alabama. each of us must go back to our homes after this celebration and build on the legacy of the march from 1965. the selma movement says we can all do something. so i say to you, don't give up on the things that have great meaning to you. don't get lost in a sea of despair. stand up for what you believe. because in the final analysis, we're one people one family the human family. we all live in the same house. the american house. we're black. we're white. we are hispanic. asian american. native american. but we're one
eight days after the bloody sunday, the president of the united states lyndon baines johnson delivered meaningful speeches ever made by any president on the question of voting rights. he said, the time for justice has come. i believe sincerely that no force can hold it back. it is right in the eyes of man and god that it should come. he said at times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom. he went on to say, so it...
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bain capital will buy coast systems. the price is all in cash.ok the company private just two years ago. barack obama campaigned on a theme of hope and change. a change -- coal says americans want more change in the next election. in a new nbc news poll, 59% of those surveyed said they would prefer a candidate who will bring a greater change, that is up from 55% in 2008. that is not great news for the two front runners. hillary clinton represents a turn to policies of the past. 50% say the same thing about jeb bush. in brazil this blows my mind. more than 10,000 in cash was confiscated. the cash has gone missing. the judge is under investigation. this is incredible. the judge was driving one of his luxury cars. batista was once one of the top 20 men on earth. his commodities empire collapse. he is said to be $1 billion in the red. alaska's iditarod dog race is underway after organizers changed the course. there wasn't enough snow this year. they should have done in new york. the start was moved to fairbanks. a good portion of the 1000 mile trek w
bain capital will buy coast systems. the price is all in cash.ok the company private just two years ago. barack obama campaigned on a theme of hope and change. a change -- coal says americans want more change in the next election. in a new nbc news poll, 59% of those surveyed said they would prefer a candidate who will bring a greater change, that is up from 55% in 2008. that is not great news for the two front runners. hillary clinton represents a turn to policies of the past. 50% say the same...
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bain capital seeking funding for its third asia fund. they hope to capitalize on a surge of eye out deals in the region last year. the fund will focus on china japan, india, and australia. we have got less than hour until the close of trading. breaking news desk, scarlet fu is looking at some of the action. what are you looking at? scarlet: we are seeing a come back from friday's big selloff. the dow industrial is near its best levels of the session. you have 26 names higher, and only 4 declining, led by intel and coca-cola. you see the yield on the 10 year coming down to 2.19% after it reached the highest level in 2015 on friday. the dax is one of the best-performing western european stock benchmarks this year, up more than 18% in 2015. that gain is a lot of different in u.s. dollar terms. more than 20 record highs in two months on anticipation of ecb quantitative easing. in the u.s. market, m&a is helping drive the game. simon property group going public with a $22.4 billion hostile bid for its fellow shopping market owner. it would be
bain capital seeking funding for its third asia fund. they hope to capitalize on a surge of eye out deals in the region last year. the fund will focus on china japan, india, and australia. we have got less than hour until the close of trading. breaking news desk, scarlet fu is looking at some of the action. what are you looking at? scarlet: we are seeing a come back from friday's big selloff. the dow industrial is near its best levels of the session. you have 26 names higher, and only 4...
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one of their biggest problems is the ceo left shorter after bain did the acquisition.ard to get perfect insight into what has been happening because it is a private company, but gymboree has been growing. the have significantly outperformed. erik: is the real problem at children's place with the management and ceo or is it with the board? i ask this because i think i know the answer. you suggest the best route here maybe the sale of the committee which adjusts this board cannot fix this -- which suggests this board cannot fix this. >> it is hard to tell what goes on behind closed doors of a board meeting. if you look at their failure to execute and deliver and manage working cap, it speaks to a lack of oversight. that looks like there are metrics that maybe they are tracking that they should be tracking and maybe metrics they should be tracking that they are not. if you look at the turnover amongst the executives, it is significant. we highlight the turnover in our letter. erik: there is always a question we should ask that i suspect viewers would want to ask. stephani
one of their biggest problems is the ceo left shorter after bain did the acquisition.ard to get perfect insight into what has been happening because it is a private company, but gymboree has been growing. the have significantly outperformed. erik: is the real problem at children's place with the management and ceo or is it with the board? i ask this because i think i know the answer. you suggest the best route here maybe the sale of the committee which adjusts this board cannot fix this --...
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speaker john bain sber to make a trip to israel.ter netanyahu to speak. he's going to meet with israeli officials in jerusalem. now american presidents don't meet the prime minister of israel in jerusalem. that's part of the two-state solution. that's part of the negotiations between the israelis and those palestinians they have those meetings in tel aviv normally. that's part of it as well. a number of the 2016 republicans criticized the president, when the white house said it will t would reassess the relationship. a lot of republicans were critical of that, including marco rubio. >> this is an historic and tragic mistake. israel is not a republican or democratic issue, if this was a republican president doing these things, i would give the exact same speech. in fact i would be even angrier. this is outrageous it is irresponsible, it is dangerous. and it betrays the commitment this nation has made to the right of a jewish state to exist in peace. >> just without a doubt, the exclamation point is this is going to continue throughou
speaker john bain sber to make a trip to israel.ter netanyahu to speak. he's going to meet with israeli officials in jerusalem. now american presidents don't meet the prime minister of israel in jerusalem. that's part of the two-state solution. that's part of the negotiations between the israelis and those palestinians they have those meetings in tel aviv normally. that's part of it as well. a number of the 2016 republicans criticized the president, when the white house said it will t would...
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one of my tasks was to write a history of lyndon baines johnson's achievements in china policy. this was a slim volume at best. [laughter] but it gave me a chance to look in the files and see all of the different initiatives we had worked on, sent forward to dean rusk, which were then sent back. the change that nixon came in with was palpable. we were asked by the secretary's office to brush off various initiatives we made on cultural exchange sports, and education and so on. so we sent them forward. and they disappeared. and they must have gone to the white house. we didn't have a clue what was going on. >> the state department was kept out of what was broiling out the -- at the pentagon. >> we were not privy to what nixon and kissinger and grant win lord were cooking up. [laughter] >> we relied a lot on some of the background and papers that were sent to us even though they didn't know why they were sending them. >> those of us who had read the nixon article and those of us who are sensitive to these different vibrations realized that something was up. we didn't know what it w
one of my tasks was to write a history of lyndon baines johnson's achievements in china policy. this was a slim volume at best. [laughter] but it gave me a chance to look in the files and see all of the different initiatives we had worked on, sent forward to dean rusk, which were then sent back. the change that nixon came in with was palpable. we were asked by the secretary's office to brush off various initiatives we made on cultural exchange sports, and education and so on. so we sent them...
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here's the top stories we're watching -- bain capital green to buy blue coast systems.ovides internet security software. brain expects the deal to be completed in the first half of the year. stephen cohen's investment firm is hiring about 30 employees that will be building computer models that collect publicly available data and analyze it for patterns, all of this according to people with knowledge with the matter. as part of a project to expand quantitative investing. in celebration of national women's day, stephanie ruhle spoke with melinda gates about creating opportunities. >> i don't think we are there yet in terms of really empowering women in all types of work there at the various sectors in the united states until we have lots of different styles of women and far more women as ceos and far more women in congress. i don't think we are even close to where we need to be. alix: stocks closing sharply in the red, all 10 sectors closing lower. julie hyman is at the breaking news desk digging deeper. we saw a pickup toward the downside. julie: really gaining momentum.
here's the top stories we're watching -- bain capital green to buy blue coast systems.ovides internet security software. brain expects the deal to be completed in the first half of the year. stephen cohen's investment firm is hiring about 30 employees that will be building computer models that collect publicly available data and analyze it for patterns, all of this according to people with knowledge with the matter. as part of a project to expand quantitative investing. in celebration of...
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this is where the plane crashed at digne les bains. it. the weather is just fine as bill neely just reported and the type of aircraft this is has a very very positive safety record. john cox, from everything that we're reporting, we have the flight number by the way. the flight number is 4u9525. and we're looking at reports of an sos signal that was sent in from pretty high altitude. analysts now saying, according to bill neely, that something catastrophic must have happened on the plane. i don't want you to surmise, john cox, but from what you know about the aircraft its history, and flying in that area what comes to mind in terms of the questions you would have at this point? >> well, i think a couple of things are important. if the reports of the distress indication from the airplane are, in fact utilizing the transponder, which there's a single report the emergency code is 7700. if that was displayed to air traffic, it says that the pilots knew they had a problem, that so far they have not reported any direct transmissions back and
this is where the plane crashed at digne les bains. it. the weather is just fine as bill neely just reported and the type of aircraft this is has a very very positive safety record. john cox, from everything that we're reporting, we have the flight number by the way. the flight number is 4u9525. and we're looking at reports of an sos signal that was sent in from pretty high altitude. analysts now saying, according to bill neely, that something catastrophic must have happened on the plane. i...
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elizabeth palmer is in the town of digne-les-bains. >> reporter: some have been in climbing gear becauseins. there are ten dna specialists gathering material for identification. and also five police detectives who are seering the legal investigation. one of the priorities will to be find the second black box. the first one was found, as you'll recall, was found almost immediately. the second one is out there somewhere. nobody knows whether it is in a state to be read. it may have been destroyed by the crash. if it is found and the material that it recorded that is the plane's operations are recoverable, it could corroborate what's now strongly suspected, that the co-pilot did steer the plane into the ground. meanwhile, some is of the families are here in the valley were gathered for a memorial service, a solemn occasion because they are not only coming to grips in their shock and grief with the death of their loved ones but now they have to come to terms with the fact that it does look as if it was a case of mass murder. vlad? >> elizabeth palmer in the french alps. thanks. >>> our cover
elizabeth palmer is in the town of digne-les-bains. >> reporter: some have been in climbing gear becauseins. there are ten dna specialists gathering material for identification. and also five police detectives who are seering the legal investigation. one of the priorities will to be find the second black box. the first one was found, as you'll recall, was found almost immediately. the second one is out there somewhere. nobody knows whether it is in a state to be read. it may have been...
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he joined been consulting and worked for -- bain consulting. our guest is a father of four and has undertaken a series of challenging government roles including serving as chief performance officer and heading the offer dubbed tech s urge. brian deese spent time at the center for american progress and worked on the obama campaign and the transition team. at the age of 31 his first assignment after joining the white house staff was to help restructure general motors. and went on to serve as deputy director of the national economic council and management and budget. so what for biography, on to the mechanics. no live blogging or tweeting or filing while the breakfast is underway to give us time to listen to what the guests are saying. to help you resist the sulfate urge we will e-mail pictures to the reporters -- selfie urge we will e-mail pictures to the reporters when the breakfast ends. we will start off by offering guests the opportunity to make starting comments and then we will move to questions from around the table. thank you for doing th
he joined been consulting and worked for -- bain consulting. our guest is a father of four and has undertaken a series of challenging government roles including serving as chief performance officer and heading the offer dubbed tech s urge. brian deese spent time at the center for american progress and worked on the obama campaign and the transition team. at the age of 31 his first assignment after joining the white house staff was to help restructure general motors. and went on to serve as...
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. >> well, if you you look at it, it comes down to, number one, we think, and we know the bain baby was car seat for her age. number two the car seat was properly put in the car. the child had lots of layers of clothing, and the child was dropped. >> never got in the water that section of the car, never got in the water, that is key. >> the very cold temperatures actually slows the body down. we have been talk about medically induced comas and things. when you are in a very, very cold situation it shuts the metabolism of the body down. in a little tiny toddler they have some body fat. so not only do they have the clothing, this mom was a really good mom. it is tragic, tragic. >> and when the baby last ate how can that affect your cycle. >> you can get dehydrated if they didn't get fed. we think she was fed right before this accident and that a allowed her to get through 14 hours of this ordeal. >> what do you mean about the baby fat. >> little toddlers have more insulation, more fat. >> insulation. >> you and you were sitting upside down for 14 how i hate to say we probably wouldn't hav
. >> well, if you you look at it, it comes down to, number one, we think, and we know the bain baby was car seat for her age. number two the car seat was properly put in the car. the child had lots of layers of clothing, and the child was dropped. >> never got in the water that section of the car, never got in the water, that is key. >> the very cold temperatures actually slows the body down. we have been talk about medically induced comas and things. when you are in a very,...
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if they find that out this week very quietly it will be very easy for bain tore put the rest of the year funding through the house. it will get done. >> a lot of this had to do with the immigration battle. >> if that doesn't happen and we're still unknown there, i don't know how we get something through. he can get something passed because democrats will support a full year of funding. the problem for boehner, do conservatives end upcoming after him if he does something like that? >> i'm going to tell you i'm so depressed about that. there was so much hope that the white house and the house republicans would be able to fix this dysfunctional relationship. >> senate republicans versus house republicans. before house republicans would sit there and say senate democrats were making their life miserable. that's why they couldn't get anything done. they have koj control of the senate. it's harder for senate republicans to get stuff through because of the filibuster rule. all that blah, blah blah. they're in charge now. it's the same dysfunction. that's a problem. that means we won't get anyth
if they find that out this week very quietly it will be very easy for bain tore put the rest of the year funding through the house. it will get done. >> a lot of this had to do with the immigration battle. >> if that doesn't happen and we're still unknown there, i don't know how we get something through. he can get something passed because democrats will support a full year of funding. the problem for boehner, do conservatives end upcoming after him if he does something like that?...
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. >> spiker bain erspeaker boehner this week emfizedem emphasized his calls for hillary clinton to turn turned over or do you have any concerns that outstanding records have been erased? >> i don't have a concern. i have a concern this isn't really about e-mails. it is about a partisan investigation by a select committee that's spent millions of dollars produced nothing. i think we're just going to see the ongoing attempt to investigate hillary clinton. whatever the subject. whether it's her e-mails or hs ter hair or whatever it has to be. that's what i'm concerned about just a politicization of an issue. and if the fact is -- the speaker says what her server should be turned over? i think that hillary clinton should not be treated any differently than any other secretary of state. even if you just said in this century where technology has moved forward and this kind of subject would not come up about a server and about e-mails a number of years ago. communications, yes. but not this particular stamp on it. so i would say, let's see what other secretaries of state, what their practice i
. >> spiker bain erspeaker boehner this week emfizedem emphasized his calls for hillary clinton to turn turned over or do you have any concerns that outstanding records have been erased? >> i don't have a concern. i have a concern this isn't really about e-mails. it is about a partisan investigation by a select committee that's spent millions of dollars produced nothing. i think we're just going to see the ongoing attempt to investigate hillary clinton. whatever the subject. whether...
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. >> we hear that speaker bain seroehner is going to israel. there's a quid pro quo now.nd this is now -- it's been politicized because of the relationship between john boehner and bibi netanyahu? >> well i think, look they at least speak. we know that and it was a fairly cordial conversation more cordial than it had been previously. you know, i think time is running out. normally at the end of a presidential term, that's when the last couple times, president clinton, president george w. bush used the last couple years to see if they could jump start a middle east peace process. that's not going to happen with president obama and prime minister netanyahu. i think we're just marking time until there's a new president and we'll see if that relationship is any -- personal relationship is any better. >> our panel wants to jump in. i'm going to bring up this other topic here about the other story in washington hillary clinton and the e-mails. trey gowdy who chairs the house committee is formally requesting she turn over the server to a third party. john boehner has made the sa
. >> we hear that speaker bain seroehner is going to israel. there's a quid pro quo now.nd this is now -- it's been politicized because of the relationship between john boehner and bibi netanyahu? >> well i think, look they at least speak. we know that and it was a fairly cordial conversation more cordial than it had been previously. you know, i think time is running out. normally at the end of a presidential term, that's when the last couple times, president clinton, president...
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the president of the united states, lyndon baines johnson made it clear to the american people and he also made it crystal clear to governor george c. wallace that the state of alabama is still a part of the union. >> [indiscernible] we need a doctor. >> ok. >> need a doctor? we, the negro people of alabama, have been exploited, and we have been dehumanized by this vicious system of racial discrimination and segregation. hundreds and thousands of you have gone to jail over and over again in the black belt areas of alabama, in marion and selma. and you stand here as witness to the fact that you want to be free and you want to be free here and now. i think again the president of the united states made it clear by responding to your demands that we will get a voting lot based on one man, one vote. that is age and residents. all the negro people of alabama and mississippi will be able to register and vote. i know that many of you are tired. you are tired of being beaten, arrested, and jailed because you want to be free. some of you right here have tilled the soil taken the track, picked t
the president of the united states, lyndon baines johnson made it clear to the american people and he also made it crystal clear to governor george c. wallace that the state of alabama is still a part of the union. >> [indiscernible] we need a doctor. >> ok. >> need a doctor? we, the negro people of alabama, have been exploited, and we have been dehumanized by this vicious system of racial discrimination and segregation. hundreds and thousands of you have gone to jail over and...
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martin luther king and other civil rights leaders watched president lyndon baines johnson sign the voting rights act prohibiting discrimination at the polls 100 years after lincoln's death. it was in the same room on january 20 2009, that a newly inaugurated president barack obama signed his first official documents as president of the united states. and it was in this room that abraham lincoln worked long into the night before his second inauguration signing and vetoing bills passed in the final hours of one congress before the next congress was sworn in. imagine that, congress leaving important business to the last minute. president lincoln was working in the president's room on march 3 1865 when he received an urgent message from general iew list sees grant. general robert e. lee was seeking a peace conference to negotiate an end to the war. grant asked his president commander in chief what should i reply? after conferring with secretary of war staunton and secretary of secretary of state southward lincoln sent word back with general grant not to meet with lee unless it was going to be
martin luther king and other civil rights leaders watched president lyndon baines johnson sign the voting rights act prohibiting discrimination at the polls 100 years after lincoln's death. it was in the same room on january 20 2009, that a newly inaugurated president barack obama signed his first official documents as president of the united states. and it was in this room that abraham lincoln worked long into the night before his second inauguration signing and vetoing bills passed in the...